Botswana Red Agate 8mm Round - Large Hole Beads Best of Green is the most common

Green is the most common color for Aventurine

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Stabilized turquoise is the contemporary version of waxing

a phenomenon that occurs when light hits the chips of silica inside the gemstone and a rainbow of different colors refract inside the stone

Botswana Red Agate 8mm Round - Large Hole Beads Best of Green is the most commonBotswana Agate displays highly defined parallel banding, usually in white on hues of brown, gray, pink, tan, apricot and purplish red. Botswana Agate was formed nearly 187 million years ago by lava flowing in waves from long faults in the earth. This lava rolled across the landscape, depositing layer upon layer of Quartz silicate to create the banding and patterns now prized in Botswana Agate.